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Definition of Overtipped
1. overtip [v] - See also: overtip
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overtipped
Literary usage of Overtipped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention (1903)
"A funnel may be set well within the wide orifice of the jar without fear of being
easily overtipped as in the case of filtering into a common bottle, ..."
2. Our Navy at Work: The Yankee Fleet in French Waters as Seen by Reginald by Reginald Wright Kauffman (1918)
"... because no witness survived—have resulted in fires; baskets have overtipped
in storms, cables have severed and the great bags drifted, helpless, ..."
3. Our Navy at Work: The Yankee Fleet in French Waters as Seen by Reginald by Reginald Wright Kauffman (1918)
"... because no witness survived—have resulted in fires; baskets have overtipped
in storms, cables have severed and the great bags drifted, helpless, ..."
4. Gun Fodder: The Diary of Four Years of War by Arthur Hamilton Gibbs (1919)
"I laughed madly and scandalously overtipped him. No one else would ever call me
chum. That was done with. I was no longer 7205 Trooper AH Gibbs, ..."
5. The Job: An American Novel by Sinclair Lewis (1917)
"He always overtipped waiters and enjoyed his own generosity. Generous he really
was, in a clumsy way. He gave to Una all he had over from his diversions; ..."
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